Happy Sunday ... Happy Colors…Feeling the need for warmth and bright sun shine in the middle of winter.
 Having a photo shoot at my office on Wednesday for The Best of Flea Market Style Magazine. I am looking forward to it but they want to take my picture and I hate that. Any thoughts or suggestions? I like to keep a low profile that is a big "NO NO".  I personally think this little happy face would be much better….and she is wearing pink …. and she is related to me!!!

Enjoy these images and those the football fan out there ..Enjoy the game!!!!!!

 Jane Coslick World Headquarters….

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Fluffing a Favorite Cottage ….

BEAD COTTAGE

I love revisiting a cottage that I restored with Blood ,Sweat and lots of white paint…great memories watching the transformation.

The cottage I fluffed today, is one of my all time favorite. For years I walked by wishing I could see inside and own it myself. It looked pretty forlorn  but I could feel its amazing energy.

Beach house Blue and Key Lime www.janecoslickcottagecollection.com   colors

I was so shock when my friend called to ask me if I had any interest  in buying the little brown house on 2nd Ave.  I was stunned.. Wishing for something for so long and then having your dream come true.....Remarkable......
The cottage  always looked to me like one "eye" was always closed . I couldn't wait to tear out the dark wall  and see if maybe,just maybe, they had just covered  the matching double pocket window on the left side of the door..and they had .My lucky day.

Here is my Mom in front of the cottage "BEFORE"…she always was so supportive of my dreams even when I knew she had a few doubts. I miss her every day.

AFTER with the addition of a screen porch as large as the cottage

The kitchen and laundry..(.Richard Leo Johnson photograph)

the living room with all the vintage white slip covered furniture

my  favorite light fixture...that I had to convert to a pull chain...

Cottages take some adapting.... they're not new and they're not perfect but their amazing energy makes up for any shortcomings.

the twin bedroom ..Bellamy,my friend, sold me these beds right after I bought the cottage.
It  was as if they had actually  been there  all along....

Everything in the cottage was white..and I mean everything. except the exterior colors. Cottage Living Magazine referred to it as "the White House". Color has come slowly into the space with the Bellamy art and pillows and accessories.The key to small space is not to overload it with any one thing.. 650 square feet. (not including the screen porch.I fluffed today as gently as I could with pops of color here and there.

I love  the color this vintage glass sphere. 

Richard Leo Johnson photograph from the Cottage living story

another of Richard's photograph  of the screen porch and the beloved pocket windows
the painting is a Blanche Nettles.

Richard Leo Johnson again....
.the built in book   cases were original to the cottage
and act as storage and a room divider.

My Dream came true..and the preservation on the cottage  changed the attitude of many island skeptics.

HURRAH HURRAH...

An Island Cottage Adventure

I have been fascinated my how different the cottages are and I know that is because all the clients are so unique.The tour was a great success everyone one had different favorites in rooms and  cottages .It was for a very good cause,the Humane society of Savannah , and I would love to hear from people what was their favorite..room.. cottage..pillow..decoration.......
Unfortunately I got sick and was out of the picture for part of the day.so not sure what the buzz was about.
I took a few photos ..of our island Christmas. .....lots of color beyond tradition red and green.(but we had red and green also)

at Blue bird Inn

Spooky on her island Christmas colors taking care of her mommy

Christmas tree cut of of old screen( a great recycle)

On of my favorite pieces of folk art at Blues Away cottage

the living room at Coast Awhile Cottage

Dr. Holiday cottage

Blues Away cottage

touches of turquoise and white and natural and starfish

reflections at southern tides

simple and natural at Southern tides

the double queen room that once was a porch at Southern Tides Cottage.
that wonderful old house is beginning to glow..

on loan from my friend Nancy Heriot  

My friend Suzanne Everette made several  arrangements for the cottage

  I just want to say..My friends mean the world to me .They always just appear as the events are near and like little elves they do their magic.. Thank You... Thank you ....thank you ....for everything you do and for being there for me always.

the most beautiful tree and ornaments at Blues Away Cottage.. (I will share more photos of Blues Away very soon)

Rain ,Wind and Sod

The weather has been so rainy and windy for the past week. I knew all the rain would help some fresh sod so I went to the nursery on my way home from the office and fell in love with this place...I had to share!!!

They had flowers but they also had chickens and fish and herbs and a vintage bathtub shower head fountain...

how about the rocking chairs on the roof... A nursery with a sense of humor!!

Everyone was so helpful and  pleasant. I love love love flowers and this cheerful place had everything.

( I only wish I could have brought them home with me to help lay the sod....tee hee)

P.S.

 Erin at House of Turquoise( My FAVORITE Blog)  posted some more photo of the  beds from my work  . Her  wonderful mother in law came to visit  and I took her and her sisters on a "ride about" on the island. I shared a few a my projects and the   pictures she took are so beautiful.  

 (May 3rd post)

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